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Making Homemade Cottage Cheese

Making Homemade Cottage Cheese

Before electric refrigeration, milk often soured before it could be used, But sour milk was not wasted. Often it was allowed to clabber or get thick, and then made into cottage cheese.  Cottage cheese was also called Dutch, Curd, Sour Milk cheese or Smearcase. The milk you buy from grocery stores in the U.S. is pasteurized (heated). When pasteurized, many of the beneficial bacteria are killed. The beneficial bacteria is what causes raw milk to sour naturally. When pasteurized milk…

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